17 Oct
2008
17 Oct
'08
2:47 p.m.
Jeremy Sanders wrote:
piping ls to xargs should do the trick. man xargs for details.
Ok, thanks for ideas, Laurent and Lawrence.
A strange limitation in ls and rm, though. My friend said he hasn't seen that in Fedora.
This limitation has been removed from more recent kernels.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=...
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Argument-list-too-long
It is probably still best not to expect the ability to build infinitely long command lines. You can hit some other limit eventually.
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